Society of Robots - Robot Forum
Electronics => Electronics => Topic started by: roboboy12 on January 02, 2009, 02:59:12 PM
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would it be better to go with 4 servos insted of only2
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depends on the robot
4 servos use more elctricity so you need more batterys but they are stronger
2 servos use less energy so you don't need alot of batterys but they are weaker
for a indoor robot 4 servos is overkill
what type of robot are you making?
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it also depends on the terrain and power usage of your robot. eg. its like a car - 4 wheel drive on rough terrain and 4 servos for rough terrain for robots. also if the power usage of your robot is high it may be good to use 2 servos to not use as much battery power.
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it also depends on the terrain and power usage of your robot. eg. its like a car - 4 wheel drive on rough terrain and 4 servos for rough terrain for robots. also if the power usage of your robot is high it may be good to use 2 servos to not use as much battery power.
How are we supposed to answer questions like that?
You give no information at all about what you want as a result. No info about what type of servo's. No info about your purpose...
Next time, make sure there is plenty of information.
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i thnk you ment to wuote the original first post not the reply
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security out door but four servos means more off my buget
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Servos will be too slow for an outdoor robot, you'll be barely crawling on the ground. I suppose you could get some high-torque servos, but for that price you can just get bigger gearmotors that will work really well.
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Servos will be too slow for an outdoor robot, you'll be barely crawling on the ground. I suppose you could get some high-torque servos, but for that price you can just get bigger gearmotors that will work really well.
I disagree. Look at my ERP on the MOBOT race course ;D
It used simple HS-311 servos.
That being said, the OP (person who opened the post) told us nothing about his robot so its impossible to answer the question. ;D
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heres my design
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even with that picture its still hard to say, can you atleast tell us what kind of terrain i needs, or how fast it needs to be? and if it needs to carry a payload at all?
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Servos will be too slow for an outdoor robot, you'll be barely crawling on the ground. I suppose you could get some high-torque servos, but for that price you can just get bigger gearmotors that will work really well.
I disagree. Look at my ERP on the MOBOT race course ;D
It used simple HS-311 servos.
That being said, the OP (person who opened the post) told us nothing about his robot so its impossible to answer the question. ;D
What nice, smooth concrete that was ;) Outdoors usually means lawn/grass/dirt kind of stuff, and grass especially slows things down a lot. Maybe 4 high torque servos would do it, but that's a lot of money to waste, gearmotors would be cheaper.